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Subject: Re: SOLUTION MBR hack for serial console 
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> I found your Email most helpful thank you. if I may ask, how do you
> get vim to display the correct rows and columns?
> I am using a xterm on a 1440x900 monitor and ssh to another FreeBSD
> machine that has my serial cable to my server.
> vim appears a very small, do you know how to change this?
>
> Sam Fourman Jr.

I left out the change to /etc/ttys in my original solution e-mail; something
like the following to set a line type for the tty:

ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on  insecure

vt100 is a 80 column x 24 line terminal. I think using vt100-w instead would
give you a 132 column line (described in termcap(5)).

                                  __     __         
   ________  ____ ___  ____  ____/ /__  / /__  _____
  / ___/ _ \/ __ `__ \/ __ \/ __  / _ \/ / _ \/ ___/
 / /  /  __/ / / / / / /_/ / /_/ /  __/ /  __/ /    
/_/   \___/_/ /_/ /_/\____/\__,_/\___/_/\___/_/     
 
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